Tag Archives: birding

I am really glad we went to the National Butterfly Center last weekend because we had a lot more Butterflies than today. Well it also did not cost to anything to enter as it was also “Community Day” We did not spend much time as there were not as many Butterflies and not many birds […]

Found this bench being used as a “mud scraper” by group of birder from Rio Grande Birding Festival came through. YES, the mud here gets annoying but why are people not using common sense when they try to clean their shoes.. someone might wants to sit there, put their camera or arm there

One of our favorite State Parks here. Not too much to walk unless you want to and plenty of wildlife to see within a short distance. The Park is located at 3301 S International Blvd FM 1015, Weslaco, TX 78596 Some of the birds we saw were Spoonbills, Snowy Egrets, Great Egrets,Couch’s Kingbirds and some […]

https://www.fws.gov/refuge/john_heinz/ What a Gem hidden near Philadelphia. The refuge is about 15 min drive from the Campus RV Park and Ride lot and offers alot of great hiking, birding and biking. There is ample parking and the Visitor Center is brand new ( so new its empty ). If you are in Philadelphia and want […]

Used to be the McAllen Botanical Garden and must have been unattended for a few years. Its seems that just recently the town started to clean it up and reopened it as a anture center. The good thing is there are already established trails (that could use some better marking) and there are many wildflowers […]

What weird day…we started off with around 70s and a few hours later it was down to 48 F. We took the bicycles to ride in Bentsen State Park and were not disapointed. At the Green Jay blind we saw…surprise..Green Jays, but also a flicker and an Altimira Oriole. When we walked into the blind […]

Saturday we went back to the Santa Ana Refuge with two other workampers and took the Tram ride throughout the park. Of course nothing ever works like planned we went on the day where the had a big event planned to protest potentially losing the refuge to the borderwall. We got there on time but […]